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Previous experience of induced abortion as a risk factor for fetal death and preterm delivery
Author(s) -
Park Tai Keun,
Strauss Lilo T.,
Hogue Carol J. Rowland,
Kim Il Soon
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(84)90005-5
Subject(s) - medicine , abortion , obstetrics , gestation , pregnancy , fetus , parity (physics) , relative risk , fetal death , life table , gynecology , induced abortions , family planning , confidence interval , population , research methodology , genetics , physics , environmental health , particle physics , biology
As part of a community‐based study in Korea to evaluate the effects of previous induced abortion on length of gestation and pregnancy outcome of subsequent pregnancies, we analyzed data obtained from January 1979 to December 1981 on pregnancies reported to family health workers in Kang Hwa Island, Korea. The preterm, live‐birth rates were not significantly associated with previous induced abortion. Overall, the life table‐estimated fetal death rate for women enrolled at the eighth or earlier weeks of gestation was 13.7%, 10.2% for women with no previous induced abortion and 28.9% for women with previous induced abortion. The relative risk for fetal death for women who had undergone a previous abortion was 2.8; relative risk for parous women compared to nulliparous women was 3.4. After controlling for parity, previous induced abortion was not a significant variable for fetal death rate.